Adjustable stove dry rack



Dec. 26, 1922. 1,439,789

, W. BENSINGER.

ADJUSTABLE STOVE DRY RACK, FILED SEPT- 10. I921.

- Inventor:

Patented Dec, 26, 1922.

PATENTiOFFE- WILSON IBENSINGER, OFLODI, ()HIO.

ADJUSTABLE STOVE DRY RACK.

Application filed September 10, 1921. Serial No. 499,843.

To aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILSON BENSINGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lodi, in the county of Medina and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Adjustable Stove Dry Rack, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in dry racks, and particularly to dry racks for use on stoves and gas ranges and the like, and its primary object is to provide a convenient and inexpensive device for drying clothes or fabrics of any kind by suspending them over the burners of such stoves and bringing them into close proximity to the heat arising from such burners, and, secondly to provide means for collapsing the device, and thus readily puttin the apparatus out of the way, when not in use, to any extent.

It consists of a shiftable framework of rods or bars horizontally suspended at or near the top of the stove or range, and adapted to be drawn forward over the stove plates to any desired position, and means for supporting the suspended rods horizontally, and for increasing or diminishing their number or dimensions and adapting them to use on any kind or size of stove, and for quickly restoring them to unused position-all as hereinafter fully set forth and stated in the appended claim.

My invention is illustrated by the accoman in drawin s in which Fi 1 is a View P y b g a in perspective of an ordinary gas range, showing my adjustable dry rack mounted thereon drawn out ready for use; Fig. 2 is a detail view of one of the side rods of the device cut off at one end, and at the other in operative engagement with a rod of the rack, and the bracket support engaging the side rod.

In the drawings similar letters and figures of reference indicate like parts. Referring thereto, A is the top portion of a gas range, such as in common use; B is the plate of the range, having burners b b; C and D are cross rods for the rack, preferably hollow from end to end, and E E are opposite brackets of like construction in all respects, which are mounted at or near the ends of said top portion, and at or near the front edge of said top. If preferred, or if the construction of the top requires it, the position of the brackets may be shifted and in Fig. 1, and in either case the brackets Y may be secured in position by the thumbscrew f, or other suitable fastening. The arms of the brackets are bored near their respective tops to admit the side rods F F therethru, respectively, and permit them to be shifted back and forth endwise therein freely, by pulling or pushing upon the front cross rod C, as the case may require.

The outer ends of the side rods are bent a proper length at right angles, the rods and bent portions being fitted to enter the hollow end of the cross red, as at I Land nuts 9 g threaded on the rear ends of said rods respectively, limit their forward movement, and so prevent the apparatus from coming apart accidentally, and permit the same to be removed from the brackets at pleasure, or restored thereto after the brackets are secured in position for use. Additional cross rods, such as shown at D, may be supplied to suit demands, and these are mounted by means of pins of proper thickness and length adapted to enter the hollow ends of said cross rods, as shown at H H, the character of said connecting pins may be as shown at G G by forming the same loosely around the side rods to accommodate the number of cross rods desired in any case. By the means aforesaid, it is apparent the rods may be placed at any desired distance apart, and may be freely shifted along the end rods F F to any desired position on the rack. Moreover, all the cross rods on the rack may be shoved back to the front of the stove body, as shown by the dotted lines C D,.and thence drawn out manually to any desired position for use.

It is also apparent that equivalent means may be employed to accomplish the same object, and I do not wish to be limited to particular formof construction, but I claim' all that is fairly within the scope of my invention and does not depart from its spirit. I am aware it is not new to provide an adjustable support, having a lateral movement in relation to the stove and atclaim.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 7 In a device of the character described, in combination with the body of gas range or stove, a pair oi brackets mounted on opposite ends of said body, perforations thru said brackets, respectively, a pair of slidable rods operable endwise thru said perforations, lateral projections at the forward ends of said side rods, respectively, a hollow cross rod mounted horizontally between. the said forward ends, end secured thereto by the penetrations of said lateral projections within thehollow ends of said cross rod, and one or more additional cross rods detachably In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 16th day of July, A. D. 1921. WILSON BENSINGER.

Tn presence of two witnesses:

-. E. A. ROWLAND,

H. F. GARVER. 

